Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-31
ASINGULAR STORY.
Catherine Fehlingcr Finds Her Parents
Atther Being Separated from Them Twenty
two Years

AltHtt hvlHS NcpdIdleu from lHtih twenty
two Years
New York Times
The happiest family in all the eastern
district of Brooklyn is that ofJacob Feb
! linger, Il shoemaker, at No. % Union
avenue.
On the morning of July 10, 1863 pretty
black-eyed, 12-year old Caroline Fehlinger
left her parents home on the corner of
Eight avence and Twenty-eight street,
this city. With her bundle of books and
her dinner pail she started fer schoel.
Soon the surroundings began to look
strange to her; she becamed Frightened
! and began to cry. A policeman found
her il this plight and took her to the
station house. She SAID her fathers name
was Fallinger, but she could not tell where
she lived. The directory was consulted
in vain, and as no one cared to claim her
the child was sent TO Randall's island.
When night approached and no tidings
of the missing girl came to her home, the
father went to the Twentieth precinct and
informed Capt Hadden, at that time in
charge,of his daughters disappearance.
Detectives were put on the case and adj
yertisements inserted in all the papers,
but no trace of the child could be OBJ
tanned. Then the search was prosecuted un-
til tho savings of life of hard work had
been exhausted, but with no result. AS the
years passed the Fehlingers mourned
their daughter as dead.
The mistake little CorOlue had made in
giving her name had made all search in
effectua. After five months on the island
she was adopted bya Mr. and Mrs. Brown,
of Park and Portland avenues, Brooklyn.
With them she lived until they went west,
when Caroline found employment as a
domestic in the family of Gen. Carl, on
Clinton avenue. Mr.. Carl, took her to
Virginia with his family where they re
NAMED for some months On her return
she left the family and started dress
making establishment adjoining Mrs.
Browns house.
During ali these years she had kept up
steady search for her parents. Five
years ago she married one William II.
Bennett. He proved to be dissipated
man, and she was compelled to leave him.
She then went TO live at No. a Hall street
with a Mrs. Lynch. A few days age she
told Mrs. Lynch Of a dream; II thought
] saw my parents she said, "holdiug out
their arms aud calling me. Their hair
was gray. They seemed 70 be living in
Brooklyn
That afternoon Mrs. Lynch and Caro-
line called on the step-father of Mrs.
/ Lynch, a Mr.Richter, shoemaker. in this
city Caroline told him of her dream and
asked him to look the directory over.
/ She said she had always thought her name
was Faninger. MIR. Richter found this
name Fehlinger, and told her that was
. AN +,,-r inn la s
Fehliuger was found, and the two women
called at the address, No. % Union avenue.
! An elderly, gray-haired women received
them. She was Mrs. Fehlinger. Mother
and daughter were brought face 10 face,
but did not recognize one another.
Did you ever have a daughter named
i Gardiner" asked Mrs. Lynch.
Yes, but she Is dead
Mrs. Lynch then informed the mother
that her companion was her lost child
Mrs. Fehlinger refused to believe it. At
ter a few minutes pause Caroline said sht
remembered that when she left home sAC
he'd a doll dolls bureau, and a set OF
dolls dishes. She described them min
utely. The mother recognized the des
cription, and the identification wa:
enough Mother and daughter in another
instant were clasped in each other;
arms.
Mrs. Bennett, the Caroline Fehlinger OF
long ago. was seen yesterday at hei
fathers house. She is handsome
women, now "a years old. She tells heI
romantic story in an interesting way, anl
then the mother shows the playthiug,
which took the place of the traditiona
strawberry